Editor’s note: In partnership with Microsoft Press, now celebrating their 30th year, MVPs have been contributing to an ongoing guest series on their official team blog. Today’s article is from SQL Server MVP Sergio Govoni which is the 42 nd...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by Visual C# MVP Ming Man Chan
Referring to Content Control using C#
For the Microsoft Office developers before Office 2010, they will be familiar with ActiveX control. Microsoft Office has come...

Learn IT today, use IT tomorrow
June 5-6
With more than 200 events under their belt and covering topics such as Windows Server, Exchange Server, IIS, Small Business Server (SBS), Automating Windows workstation deployments, Server/Network Security...

Editor's note: The following post was written by Community Program Manager William Jansen
Three men and a vision. A vision of a new type of conference. The result: Techorama.
Techorama is the brain-child of MVPs Gill Cleeren , Pieter Gheysens...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by SQL Server MVP Nicolas Souquet
Introduction
With the verly large amounts of data companies store today, databases are very likely to contain critical and confidential data, making database backups...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by SharePoint MVP Steve Smith
This article deals with the subject of ‘ Aligning skills with real world business benefits’ and why continued investment in technology skillsets is even more...

Editor's note: The following post was written by Business Program Manager William Jansen
Microsoft Excel. Just a spreadsheet application? Simple graphing tools? Pivot tables or a series of grids or cells? I think not, and I believe the Microsoft Excel...

Editor's note: The following post was written by Community Program Manager Erika Vilches
Best practices, tips and tricks and deep-dive technical discussions were the focal point of the 2014 Argentina Open Days event held in Buenos Aires. At this...

Editor’s note: In partnership with Microsoft Press, now celebrating their 30th year, MVPs have been contributing to an ongoing guest series on their official team blog. Today’s article is from SQL Server MVP Shehap El Nagar which is the 41stin...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by Client Development MVP Bruno Sonnino
Being a mentor in the Imagine Cup
In July 2012, I’ve had the pleasure of mentoring Team Virtual Dreams, winner of the Windows 8 Metro Challenge and...

Two countries enter, only one is left standing.
Belgium versus The Netherlands in a knock out, no holds barred, fight to the bitter end!
Well, not exactly. The Battle of the Lowlands used code in place of combat, apps instead of artillery. Participants...

"All in all, one of the great strengths of PowerShell are our MVP's."
- Senior Programming Writer Ed Wilson
"The shell is incredibly deep and complex, and general conferences just can't explore the nooks and crannies," said PowerShell MVP...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by Visual C# MVP Ming Man Chan
Creating Unit Test for the projects using Microsoft’s Entity Framework
This article consist of three subsection:
Create an ADO.NET Entity Data Model in...

Editor’s note: In partnership with Microsoft Press, now celebrating their 30 th year , MVPs have been contributing to an ongoing guest series on their official team blog. Today’s article is from Cluster MVP David Bermingham which is the 40th...

Editor's note: The following post was written by Windows Phone Development MVP Peter Nowak
If you have been one of the lucky ones to attend //build, or following the announcements of //build from home a ton of new announcements might have caught your...

Over 50 MVPs are joining forces on April 24, 2014 for the //learn/ Global Community Webcast to present nearly 70 sessions. This is a unique opportunity for app developer enthusiasts around the globe to meet and share best practices, tips and tricks and...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by Visual Studio ALM MVP Mohamed Radwan
Automating Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013 Backlog
In this blog post I will show a PowerShell script that automates a comprehensive customization...

Nearly 100 MVPs met at the Microsoft offices in Berlin to learn, share ideas and celebrate. The two-day Community Open Days event boasted its highest number of attendees ever and included eight MVP presentations. "In my eyes, this event was a great success...

Editor’s Note: In partnership with Microsoft Press, MVPs have been contributing to an ongoing guest series on their official team blog. Today’s article is from Windows Expert – IT Pro MVP Philippe Levesque which is the 39th in the series...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by PowerPoint MVP Glenna Shaw
PowerPoint and Excel: Perfect Partners for Dynamic Tables and Dashboards
PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2013 introduced improvements to a lot of features, but sadly...

What do you accomplish in 24 hours?
If you're SharePoint Server MVPs Vlad Catrinescu and Matthias Einig , you chase the sun from New Zealand to Hawaii and bring the world right along with you. Starting April 16 at 10pm GMT in New Zealand, they'll do...

Today, 966 exemplary community leaders around the world were notified that they have received the MVP Award! These individuals were chosen because they have demonstrated their deep commitment to helping others make the most of their technology, voluntarily...